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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HARDWARE: geometry FAQ? Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:30:42 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <47jae2$jqs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <roy-0111952055230001@adept.cts.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Roy Lovejoy <roy@adeptsolutions.com> wrote: >Q2: If not, does anyone know the geometry for a CONNER 5xx meg SCSI drive? >(model CFA540S) Most likely your kernel. Boot with -v. (You don't really want to know the actual geometry, only what your BIOS thinks the geometry were. You would have a hard time to enter all the different geometry zones of your hard disk. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)